Modern medicine has come quite a long way, but human errors in hospital settings are ever present. Despite the many years of combined training, expertise and experience, there are still many opportunities for individual health care providers and care teams to make...
What is Defensive Medicine & How Could It Affect Me?
Defensive medicine can be put into two categories: providing too much and providing too little medical care. Providing too much medical care (also known as “positive” defensive medicine) is the tendency of doctors to order arguably unnecessary services, such as...
Dog Bites: A Guide to Staying Safe
The friendliest person you know can still snap when pushed beyond levels of stress that they are used to – the same idea applies to dogs. Even the nicest dog you know could still one day be put into an unfamiliar, stressful, anxiety producing situation, and bite or...
The Washington Hawaii Connection
Trade and cultural relationships have existed between the West Coast of the United States and the Hawaiian Island for hundreds of years. This includes a number of native Hawaiians who migrated to the Pacific Northwest in the early 1800’s to participate in the fur...